Improvement in double and single-tree fastenings for carriages



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Josnfrtr ING-Ens, or. MILTQNJNDIANA.-

Letters Patent No; 102,940, dated May 10, 1870.

IMPRovsMBNTrn DOUBLE AND SINGLE-TREE FASTENINGS Pon cARRrAGns.

To all chomt't may concern Be it known that I, J OSEP'H INGELS, of' Milton, in the county of Wayue'aud State of Indiana, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Double and Single-tree and Neck-yoke Connections for Oarriages; and I do'hereby declare that the following `is a full, clear,and exact description of theconstrucand Figures 4 and 5 represent detached portions, `that will be hereafter more particularly referred to.

Similaifletters of reference, where they occur in the several separate drawings, describe like parts of the contrivances in" all of thetigures. l

First, to 4certain devices for making a stong, yet freely moving connection between the double-tree and the pole ofa carriage, and between vthe single and the double-tree; and l f Secopdly, it relates 'to the fastening by which the tracesarc secured'to the single-tree, as also the yoke 'is secured to the end' of `the pole, so that they may hold firmly, yet ,bev readily detached or unfastened.

-To enable otlers'skilled inthe art to make and use my, invention, Iwill proceed to describe Athe same with reference to the drawings.

A split cup orsocket, a, is let into the pole A, and

bolted thereto as at b.

This `cu'p Yhasfa `ange at its upper end, which bends or curves over as at c, so as to take over and hold upon the flange e .of `an inverted cup or socket, d, partially let into the double-tree B, and bolted thereto by the .boltf The socket or cup d need not be divided,'as the under divided one, admits of putting the angesof the. two together. 4 g Y l In these sockets or cups, so as to extendinto each and break the joint between them, is placed a plug, O, around which one or both of `'the cups or sockets may freely move, as well Aas move on each other attheir Banged connection.

point of the pole with the neck-yoke united thereto;

The plug O is loose in the cups, butit might beat tached to, or be the head of, one of the bolts b and have the same'strengtheuing eect, but' iu that case,

could onlyturn with either thepole or -the douhlejy tree.

The single-trees vD I propose to unite to the doubletree B in the same manner, and ne'ed not be specially described, as it is clearly shown in the drawing, and

by the sanne letters of reference.

The trace-holder E I make of a hollow spherical, or

.nearly so, head, and a socket to receive the endet' the wood.

This head is slotted, as at g, and cut a\vayas at h,-

so that -t-he buttoni ou the` trace-fastener E,fig. 5,

may pass into the opening h, and its shanktportiou j move through the slot g until it comesint'o-the. position shown in lig. 1, when the trace is securely atv tacked to the single-tree, and can only be detached by reversing the operation, and carrying the button t clear back to the openingh` before it can pass out.

The trace G is fastened to .button-` F by a stud, k.

. The neck-yoke His fastened or'securetl to the end of the pole A, g. 3, by a device substantially like that which holds 'the trace tothe singletree, viz: a slotted, hollow, and under-cut head, I, intowhich a button, m, on lthe shank n, enters underneath, and swings around and upward, the opposite end of the shank Vor .coupling having on it another button,o, which holds in the strap or neck-yoke iron 11.

Atse-ction of the divided socket, or one-half of it, y

-.i's shown in perspectiveat-fig'. 4, and marked by the 'letter a.

Having thus fully'described my invention, What-I claim is- A single or doubletree fastening, composed' of the hollow sockets, one of which is split,- the plug and" bolts, substantially as and for the purpose described.

Also, a brace or neck-yoke fastening, composed of Athe hollow, slotted, and cut-away head and a shank,

having .a button at each end, one to hold itself to the trace or,ne ck-yoke, and the other fasten the trace to" the single-tree,ior the neck-yoke to thepole, substantially as described,

Witnesses;

A. B.- S'roUGHTos, EDMUND MAssoN. g

the trace-iron, hook, or`

` JOSEPH menus. 

